Word: beasted
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...reform may just be too large a beast for the congressional snake to swallow. As it is, Congress has a full calendar. There is always next year, of course. But by then every member of the House and a third of the Senators will be preoccupied with really urgent business: getting re-elected...
Asked by a corrupt police chief what his occupation is, he replies, "I'm a shepherd." Confronted by a huge and angry attack dog, he cries, "Look, defenseless babies," then muses as he skids away from the befuddled beast, "Fell for the oldest trick in the book." Staring down the wrong end of a revolver aimed at him by the mastermind of a drug-smuggling and -peddling scheme, the reporter eyes the plaques on the wall behind the crook and sighs, "You know, if you shoot me you'll lose a lot of those humanitarian awards...
When finally put to the test, the Beast of the fast came out of its cave, bared its gleaming teeth, and attacked...
...manner of Pope's heroic couplets or Johnson's manly verse. Yet literature never adapts itself to such hierarchical thinking, and one of the virtues of Lonsdale's book is that it is broad enough to grant the reader his or her whims. Taste can be a most esoteric beast, and just what exists as good poetry suits itself to eclectic standards...
...mandate of male weepies to smash one Hollywood cliche (in this case, that heroes are always handsome) in order to reveal several others (beauty is the beast; the good die young). Anna Hamilton Phelan's script neither sidesteps nor wallows in these homilies; it is notable mostly for the bathetic excesses it avoids. So is Peter Bogdanovich's directorial touch. Bogdanovich may be the last and finest avatar of the classic Hollywood style; discreet tracking shots, invisible editing, no camerabatics, no teary close- ups for emotional blackmail. Nobody is trying to make a masterpiece here. Mask has a sturdy, disposable...